The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-08-04

Chicago ana Alton hallway, and at least |
thirty were injured, most of them slightly. |
The track was blocked nine hours The |
killed and wounded were nearly all EN-. |
ployces of the construction train.
There are 1 200, 900 registered slaves IN |
Brazil, but before long they will all be free. |
All slaves registered under the act Of 1871 |
will be free in two more years. Until then |
they serve their masters, but receive pay. |
A slave who can raise 5000 can purchase |
his freedom at once.
The Inter State Commission does not re-
gard the fact that communication tickets are
put on sale at given rate, to be one that
entities the purchaser of n mileage ticket to
of unjust discrimination if
charged higher rate The circumstances
and conditions" the opinion says, care not |
tho same"
The library of the late Rev. Archibald |
Alexander Hodge, ID. d., professor of di |
dactic and polemic theology In Princeton
Theological Seminary, has been, with the
exception of few volumes retained by the |
University, near Oxford. Tho collection
of books embraces several hundred volumes.
A special from Clinton, Iowa, says that
boys at play set fire to barn In q thicllly
settled part of the city Tuesday afternoon.
The Baptist church and four residences
were destroyed, and half dozen other
structures were badly damaged. The loss
is about $25, 900; only partly insured.
A construction train, carrying over 100
laborcrs, was run into on Wednesday even
ing by freight train, with fearful consc-
qucnccs. Five men were killed outright
and nine wounded, of which latter two will
die. Responsibility for the disaster is not
yet located.
A delegation from Lynchburg, Va,
headed by Senator Daniel, called on the
| President and invited him to attend the
| State Fair, to be held at Lynchburg in
October next. The President promised to
| consider the invitation, and he said he
would give them decided answer at q
| later day.
The Board of Guardians of Limerick,
Ireland, has declared the Poor Law Union
bankrupt. Nine thousand pounds is due
to contractors for supplies. The banks have
refused to cash the checks of the Union
and rates have not been paid. The Board
Of Guardians has ordered that legal action
| DC begun to rCCOucr rates
Neither side in Texas uses soft answer
| to turn away wrath. Congressman Mills
anti prohibitionist, in speech the other
day, asserted that "hcll was full to over
flowing with such political preachers as
! DIR. i. ii. Carroll whcrcupon the Waco
i Idcancc, prohibtionist, calls Mr.. Mills,
this foul-mouthcd, intdclic, snakceycd
| monster"
The father Of Brooks, alias Maxwell, the
st. Louis trunk murderer, is on his way
from England to make last desperate
| effort to save bis sons life. It's, of course,
impossible for the poor old man to avert
the doom of his guilty son, but he clings to
the hope that he may succeed. Brooks is
under sentence to be hung on the Goth of
! August.
One Of the uuccrcst facts in natural his
tory has been discovered by Rev. J. J.
LaiIcrty, of Richmond, who gives it to the
world in his religious journal as follows:
"Whcn sparrow hawk pounccs on a
guinea, he lets the guinea fly, but the
hawk sitting on the back of the fowl, uses
| his tail to guide the guinea. lie always
steers his victim to his nest I'm the forest"
1t is understood that the United States
steamship Atlanta on Tuesday went ashore
on real rock ledge and broke one of her
| propeller blades. Her officers are very re-
ticcnt but it is believed that the report is
| true. AT all events she put back to New
port, Il. l., although she went out for a
| ten days cruise, and snow anchored to the
buoy of the training station.
\ terrible epidemic prevails in the Ben,
nCttsvillc section Of Marlboro county, S. G..
| Within a small area of the county, not
more than - miles square, 80 or more per
cons have died within period of 80 days.
| The epidemic seems to be q fever Several
persons arc still very low, but with the
| rains for the last few days, it is hoped that
the disease will be checked.
The seventh annual State prohibition
| convention is in session at jackson, Miss.
| tn1 1N,,
regular delegates and scvcral1by proxy,
about forty in all. The meeting is com,
posed of representative men, and they ap
pear 90 hc deeply interested in the cause of
prohibition. Bishop Galloway, of the
Methodist Church, is the presiding officer
y bloody fight began in Bell county, Ky,
| which still progresses. The sheriff sum.
mOncd Il posscc to arrest q party Of Turner's,
living on Yellow Creek in that county,
who resisted, and in the fight which cnsucd,
| George Thomas, Of the posse, and George
Turner, of the other side, were killed,
Each side has been re inforccd, and the
light is raging hotter than at first
The Inter State Commission SAYS that
persons belonging to the class known as
commercial travellers arc not priviledgcd to
ride over the railroads at lower rates than
are paid by other persons. Whatever rcas-
| 'l'NDlC lilICS COIIlulCIClll lluYClcTS are maze
to pay other travellers may be made to pay.
70 charge one more than another Is an un-
just discrimination. And this is true
whether tickets issued arc mileage tickets
| or i'll some other form. -
| A meeting of the J&ichmond, Va, Dem
OCratiC Committee unanimously adopted a
resolution requesting Blair, a member of
the committee and wealthy and promi.
ncnt business man, to resign, on rccount of
articles Of his which appeared in the New
| York Iadcpendent, charging Democrats In
the South with fraud in elections and the
intimidation Of negroes, and advocating
mixed schools and similar doctrines
| Tuesday nights very heavy rains did i'm.
mcnsc damage at the Falls of Schuylkill,
| and the oldest residents Of the place say
| that ii was the heaviest storm they ever eX-
| pcriCncCd. Rain began to fall early In the
evening and until midnight poured in tor.
rents. Water rushed down the hilly streets,
and at 1 o'clock yesterday morning a roar,
ing stream six feet deep poured down Milf.
lin street. a number of buildings were
washed away, and the water was five feet
deep on the floor Of the police sub. station